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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Slurm experts,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> I’m new to SLURM and could really use some help getting preemption working.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The limiting factor in our cluster is licenses and I want to have high and low priority jobs where submitting a high priority job will preempt (suspend) a low priority job if all the licenses are already in use.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Is this possible with SLURM currently? <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If so can someone provide example configuration settings?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If it isn’t currently possible, could this be a feature included in the current cons_tres work that is going on?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’ve read through a bunch of the documentation and tried to do my due diligence but haven’t found a definitive answer. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Eric W<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>